好人不该死 对吧
“a good person shouldn't die, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
老默
“Mo,”
好人不该死 对吧
“a good person shouldn't die, right?”
你说得对
“You're right.”
“Tell me I did the right thing by taking out the bad guys.”
Chinese cultural ethics traditionally believe that virtue should be rewarded with long life and peace, making premature death for good people a poignant tragedy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
good person; decent person
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to refer to virtuous or innocent people.
right?; isn't that so?
A very frequent tag question used to solicit agreement or check common ground.
Softens the assertion and turns the statement into a confirmation-seeking tag question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Everyone else must die.”
“People like him would be better off dead.”
“ended up losing their lives.”
“They all deserve to die…”
“-If she doesn't stay to serve me, -I don't want to die! she's to be executed?”
“I shouldn't speak ill of the dead.”